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• burn-in period n. 1. A factory test designed to catch systems with marginal components before they get out the doo
  the theory is that burn-in will protect customers by outwaiting the steepest part of the bathtub curve (see infant mortali using a computer is so intensely involved in his project that he forgets basic needs such as food, drink, sleep, etc....
• infant mortality: n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large
  his term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile)....
• bathtub curve: n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time
  initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it `tires out'....
• bathtub curve n. Common term for the curve (resembling an end-to-end section of one of those claw-footed antique bathtubs) that describes the expected failure rate of electronics with time
  initially high, dropping to near 0 for most of the system's lifetime, then rising again as it `tires out'....
• infant mortality n. It is common lore among hackers (and in the electronics industry at large
  his term is possibly techspeak by now) that the chances of sudden hardware failure drop off exponentially with a machine's time since first use (that is, until the relatively distant time at which enough mechanical wear in I/O devices and thermal-cycling stress in components has accumulated for the machine to start going senile)....
• oglodyte mode: [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights turned off
  unglasses on, and the terminal inverted (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight that your eyes hurt (see {raster burn})....
• erminal illness: n. 1. Syn. {raster burn}. 2. The `burn-in' condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• eal user: n. 1. A commercial user. One who is paying *real* money for his computer usage.
  2. A non-hacker. Someone using the system for an explicit purpose (a research project, a course, etc....
• Burn In, Not Out.